Re: [APML] M1 The Crab Nebula

[Philip Perkins <philip@astrocruise.com>]

Thanks Jerry, that's an interesting image.  Is that actual proper motion in 
one or two of the stars?  (especially the star at about 10 o' clock from 
centre right on the outer edge of the nebula)

--Philip


>Tom Polakis just sent me this:
>
> >Kitt Peak visitor program manager Adam Block has registered a CCD image of
> >the Crab Nebula he took this year with one taken by the 4-meter telescope
> >in 1973, and created an animated GIF of the motions of the filaments.  The
> >image is at:
> >
> >http://www.noao.edu/outreach/aop/observers/m1animation.gif
> >
> >The 1973 image was recorded on Ektachrome film at the prime focus of the
> >4m, while Adam's 2001 image was taken with a CCD camera and a more portable
> >16-inch SCT.
>
>Jerry



Philip Perkins - philip@astrocruise.com
Wiltshire UK & Luberon France
Astrocruise - http://www.astrocruise.com


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